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Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este

By Paul Miller

Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) and his family in 1910
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, pictured with his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and their children Princess Sophie, Maximilian, Duke of Hohenburg and Prince Ernst von Hohenberg in 1910.
Austro Hungarian official court photographer, 1910, n.p.
IWM (Q 81810), http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205124989.

Österreich-Este, Franz Ferdinand von

(Archduke Franz Ferdinand Austria-Este)

Heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph

Born 18 December 1863 in Graz, Austria (Austrian Empire)

Died 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Austro-Hungarian Empire)


Summary

This biographical overview of Archduke Franz Ferdinand examines the evolution of his difficult personality through the traumatic experiences of barely surviving tuberculos